'Mama blew away'

[underpants]

Roy Butts lowered his voice and described how his kin next door had found 8-year-old Chloie Gunter wandering in her yard in the darkness about half past midnight, and her telling them, “Mama blew away.”

Ellen S. Gunter, 63, and Paul Howard Gunter, 73, were found dead amid debris in their backyard at 437 Grove St.



Kevin Mainor saw the tornado coming.

It was about 20 yards away, coming through the woods toward his Judson Bulloch Road home next to Mountain View Elementary School in Warm Springs, Georgia. “It looked like a big cloud coming,” he said. “I had enough time to run from the door to my kids. That’s all I had.”



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[femrap]

1. I think anyone who lives in

Tornado Country should have a hole in the ground to go to....used to call them 'root cellars.' Many homes don't have basements. Or make arrangement w/ neighbors who do have basements.

Being underground can save one's life.

[Horse with no Name]

2. Heartbreaking.

I read a story a few years back in Readers Digest that talked about the Super Tornadoes that blew through the Midwest IIRC.

There was a mother that talked about the tornado ripping her children out of her arms.

I live in tornado alley and believe me, I have thought about what would be the best holds to put on the kids if we were in that situation so that they couldn't be ripped away.

There isn't always time to get to the cellar.:(

[Contrary1]

3. Tornadoes can do some very weird things...

A few years back, it was windy and raining so hard, a woman pulled her van into a church parking lot, hoping to wait it out. A tornado picked up the van, along with the driver and her toddler, carried them about 3 blocks over nearby homes, then gently set them down in the middle of the street.

Even though all the windows of the van had shattered, the only injury was a small scratch to the mother's face.